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You know what this guy was supcious from the very begining but it was until First Strike that I came up with the theory that I think he might be working with the Covenant. I will list the reasons...
1st.When they captured the flag ship in First Strike Cortana ran into problems with a Covenant AI, now I believe that Ackerson helped the Covenant get their hands on that human technology, and Cortana also that the AI's signature reminded her of someones and the only other AI she interacted with was Ackerson's in The Fall of Reach.
2nd.Why would Ackerson have plans to the mines that lead underground underneath the ONI facility on Reach, I believe he found this area and he reported it to the Covenant and thats why they came to Reach to wipe out our last defense against them and to get their hands on that Crystal that screwed up Slipspace when they entered it.
3rd. I believe Ackerson will disable the Orbital MAC Guns in Halo 2 thats how the Covenant will get into Earth, or he might show the Covies a weakness in our defenses.

  • 07.13.2004 9:02 PM PDT
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makes sence. but why would a human help the covies blow up earth? seems pointless.

  • 07.13.2004 9:05 PM PDT
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Posted by: ShadowKenshinX
3rd. I believe Ackerson will disable the Orbital MAC Guns in Halo 2 thats how the Covenant will get into Earth, or he might show the Covies a weakness in our defenses.


Or he helped them find Earth.

  • 07.13.2004 9:16 PM PDT
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yeah those are good points. especially the one about cortana recognizing the signature a bit. However i too would have to wonder why in hell would he help the cov. doesnt seem to make sense. i mean we arent talking about the cov. wiping out his enemies. we are talking about the cov. wiping out his entire race. hmm

  • 07.13.2004 10:13 PM PDT
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unless maybe the covies have some mind control thing or somethin like that. they are cleaver little bastards

  • 07.13.2004 10:25 PM PDT

Devil is Double is Deuce and Joker always trumps Deuce.

this is a bit far fetched but what if he was an elite with a translator and an active camoflauge that could look like ackerson
kinda like the EMH from star trek voyager

(i just know i'm gonna get flamed for that theory)

  • 07.13.2004 10:37 PM PDT
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yeah...that's a little far-feched...

I haven't read "First Strike" yet. But - In "Fall of Reach" Cortana does some serious screwing around with the Colonel. (Of which I aprove emensly. The man's a prick.) But, all the information, all the transactions; she all traces it back to his handheld data pad. What if, because of her contact with the Forerunner technology, Cortana is suffering some kind of memory "blip" and can't quite recognise the AI signature? Kind of like alztimers...but for an AI.

*shrugs* think about it. I could most definately be wrong though.

  • 07.13.2004 10:44 PM PDT

Devil is Double is Deuce and Joker always trumps Deuce.

downloading all that info from halo could have shortened her 'life' (an AI basically thinks itself to death) and cortana could be suffering from altzimers or 'old age' as Hidohebhi said

  • 07.13.2004 10:48 PM PDT
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she is, in first strike the AI in the covie ship often tricks her wit -blam!- little tricks she would have caught before she went to halo. she is like a computer, shes runs slower wit less memory.

  • 07.13.2004 11:40 PM PDT
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Well as we saw in Flood when betrayal happened a lot I think Ackerson believes that the Covenant might spare his life, but what he doesnt realize is that the Covenant dont spare lives, they wipe them out.

  • 07.14.2004 7:17 AM PDT
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The Covenant do not need to be shown a weakness in our defenses or have the Orbital MAC Guns disabled. They beat the humans at Reach whilst there were Orbital MAC Guns there, and the Covenant had less ships at Reach then the force that was going to attack Earth (I assume that there will be a similar size fleet attacking Earth as the one that was destroyed).

  • 07.14.2004 7:28 AM PDT
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i seriously don't think Ackerson's helping out the covenant. the only reason he seems evil is because he's competing with dr halsey for funds. he wants the sparten's to look bad so that he can get more money for his spec. weapons program. i'm sure he hates the covenant just as much as any marine.

  • 07.14.2004 7:35 AM PDT
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Well to the last two Replies that were said for the first guy I believe now the Covenant need to find a weakness because 500 of their ships were destroyed at the Unyielding Hierophant in the book First Strike before they could launch that attack on Earth.And to the second guy if you read what I said at the very begining then youll see its more than just a competition with Dr.Halsey.

  • 07.14.2004 7:41 AM PDT
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They dont need to find a weakness because of the loss of 500 ships. At the end of First Strike a prophet says "A regrettable turn of events, but in the end, only an insignificant setback." Insignificant, it doesnt matter to the Covenant as they still have loads of ships.

  • 07.14.2004 7:45 AM PDT
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well in an interview, bunige gave a little hint about the plot and said that there would be a traitorous deceit in our own ranks.

  • 07.14.2004 7:47 AM PDT
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What I'm curious about is: What IS Ackerson's Spec. Weapons Program? I think that something may very well have gone wrong, and he unwittingly helped the covies (by giving them the AI) He didn't help them find Reach or Earth though, they did that through the little spy bug on Keys' first ship and through the Forerunner artifacts. He could be helping them though, I dunno...

  • 07.14.2004 7:48 AM PDT
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I thought that Ackerson's Spec. Weapons Program was something to do with cloning. Maybe creating an army of clones (of any race).

  • 07.14.2004 7:50 AM PDT
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ok, i'll watch me shoot down every one of ur reasons.

1. it's possible that the covenant had AI technology already, or that perhaps they captured human technology, reprogramed it, and it's working for them now.
2.the covenant already knew about the crystal, and Ackerson probably has the files on the mine because he himself is studying forerunner artifacts.
3. How would Ackerson disable the MAC guns, anyways? Besides, the Covies already know enough about our weaknesses.

Ackerson didn't lead them to earth. and he doesn't want to betray earth. here's my reasons.

1. he wanted to pull back every ship in the fleet to earth, rather than send a recon patrol to reach and spread human forces out. if you were going to betray earth, wouldn't you want the fleet spread out, to where they could cause as little damage to the covenant as possible? he wants the fleet bunched up, so that they can cause as much damage as possible on the covenant when they come.
2. Ackerson tried to prove that Lt. Wagner broke the Cole Protocol. it was probably Wagner that led them to earth, since he, in fact, did break Cole Protocol. if Ackerson was betraying earth, he'd try to keep the breach of CP a secret, and have the Covenant decend upon earth when earth's not expecting it.

oh, yeah, and the loss of the fleet at Unyeilding Heirophant wasn't a big loss to the covenant, according to the prophet himself. the covenant are going to bring a fleet huge enough to earth to where they wouldn't need a traitor to shut down the MAC guns.

  • 07.14.2004 7:52 AM PDT
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Mindofarock I like your replies about Ackerson just being another ass in the branch, but I believe that he'll do sumthing to help in the defeat of mankind and regret it possibly and either kill himself or get his ass wooped by Master Chief. Also if you read The Fall of Reach you would now that Ackerson wanted to get rid of the Spartan II program that Master Chief is a part of and if you remember the crap he did to Master Chief on the training course he practically tried to kill Master Chief. Im still a little surpirsed as how Master Chief did live from that Jet attack.:), but hey i like the post so keep em postin people.

  • 07.14.2004 8:02 AM PDT

Me: "OMFG, Dude... wtf!"
AbolitionofMan: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to betray you."
Me: "That's the 4th time in this game alone!"
Chris: "Third, besides he had the flag I was trying to stop him, how was I supposed to know you were there."
Me: "I said, 'I got the Flag, don't shoot.'"
Chris: "Well those Wraith shots take a while to reach you."
Me: "You were right next to me, I had killed him and a minute passed before you decided to shoot."
Chris: "Hahahahaha, yeah... that was great."

Indeed, also, most of a reason why he is doing what he is doing is to get all the 'glory', meaning he hates Halsey and the Spartan II's. She and her program are credited with why we haven't lost the war yet, and he wants that credit and presitge for himself. Reach was found because a recon probe attached itself to the hull of the UNSC Iroquois as it was making random jumps before actually heading to Reach. Earth may well have been discovered because we have a large amount of Forerunner artifacts and such, and the Covenant are good are reading where to find these said artifacts thus leading them to Earth. Also, all that data tha Cortana has DID decrease her life span dramatically, and so this has lead to the theory, (her encounter with the Halo Network overall), that she goes Rampant in H2.

Achilles

  • 07.14.2004 8:09 AM PDT
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yeah, he's deliberatly trying to make the Sparten ll's look bad. so he can get funds for his Spec. Weapons program. that's all that he doing. of course, it'll turn out bad in Halo 2, and he'll probably help the covenant unknowingly.

i personally thing his Spec. Weapons program is some kind of chem/bio weapon, and he's creating his own spartans to deliver them chem/bio weapons.

  • 07.14.2004 8:11 AM PDT

Me: "OMFG, Dude... wtf!"
AbolitionofMan: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to betray you."
Me: "That's the 4th time in this game alone!"
Chris: "Third, besides he had the flag I was trying to stop him, how was I supposed to know you were there."
Me: "I said, 'I got the Flag, don't shoot.'"
Chris: "Well those Wraith shots take a while to reach you."
Me: "You were right next to me, I had killed him and a minute passed before you decided to shoot."
Chris: "Hahahahaha, yeah... that was great."

Enter in the Spartan III program which is what Halsey stumbled upon and what she was going to go after in that ONI spy ship with Kelly along with her.

Achilles

  • 07.14.2004 8:13 AM PDT
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These are good theories and I like when people disagree with stuff I write because it lets me see someone elses point of view, it would be more boring if just everyone agreed with the stuff I said.

  • 07.14.2004 8:14 AM PDT
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yep, that's the way i figured it.

  • 07.14.2004 8:14 AM PDT
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Colonel Ackerson hates the Spartans, desiring to have the Spartan program abolished mainly because it was sucking away funding for use in his own programs. He also doesn't see John 117 as a human being. To Ackerson John is a clone, a weapon's system to be used until it becomes obsolete and thrown away. Killing Master Chief would have showed that the Spartans were fallible but throwing such insurmountable odds at him and seeing him prevail only made it worse for him.

He's a contemptable arse but is he a traitor? How would he have even contact the Covenant?
It's not like Earth where you take a boat into an enemy country. Slipping into Covenant space and spending some time finding a Covenant vessel isn't a one person job. He's also a Marine, is the Naval Captain going to stand by and let him do this?

Sure, he could have tried doing it by radio but then... communiques back and forth with the enemy? Sooner or later, more likely sooner, someone will notice.

Now, think of it this way. Maybe Ackerson believes that the Covenant don't have thousands of ships and that their fleets, though powerful, have no more ships then Earth's. He might have revealed the location of Earth to the Covenant depending on his new Special Weapons project to win the war and make him the greatest hero since Winston Churchill. That would just be the one communique.

Another thing, perhaps the Covenant AI seemed familiar because, not that it was human based, but that its core code was composed of Forerunner symbols. The Forerunner as we know, implement AIs and the Covenant emulate anything Forerunner. It could be their crappy AI was a pathetic attempt to create their own.

  • 07.14.2004 8:19 AM PDT

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